"Empowered by innovation. Innovating for a safer world. Innovation that excites". The term “innovation” has become so overused in our culture that it’s now devoid of any meaning. For those of us who actually are involved in innovation work (more on that later), it’s a real pain to try to have a conversation about this topic because often each person will have a different definition of innovation in his/her mind. It's our civic duty to fix this problem!
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Just like everyone I know who cares to speak about his/her school experience, I have been thinking about how most of the knowledge I learned during that time is just not good enough for today’s economy. The arguments are many against our educational system, but they all share the same theme that what & how we learn today in schools is really, really outdated.
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A few decades ago, at the advent of Silicon Valley and the IT revolution, the world began its course down Moore’s law, which states that the price performance of electronic components doubles roughly every 18 months. This was when computers took up whole buildings and the vast majority of the world would never expect to interact with one. Needless to say, it was a radical idea, but nobody really “got” what it really meant at the time.
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Ever since I started doing front-end work full-time, I had a realization that there is an almost infinite array of ways to get the job one. What do I code first: IE or the standards-compliant browsers? How much wireframing do I need to do before designing? And the questions go on…
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There are times in life when a web person gets to build a product from scratch based purely on an idea or problem to be solved. No pre-existing code, no tech constraints, just sheer possibilities ahead. Exciting right? That’s until our ADD minds get in the way. Usually, the process goes from something like “Omg this is the greatest app the world will ever see” through 43 iterations of “wouldn’t it be great if we added _______ to it?” and finally ending in something that does a lot of half-assed things that don’t make anybody happy, if it gets deployed at all.
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